Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
My never-say-never attitude has helped me a lot. That’s why after a short period after the accident, I’m capable of doing almost everything on my own.
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
Anything can happen in life. You take your car, you drive your car every day in the same road and one day you just have no concentration – accident. That’s part of life. It can happen to anybody.
Back in 1962, when I had by accident become the supervisor of Roberto Celis in Argentina, it occurred to me that antibody diversity might arise from the joining by disulphide bridges of a variety of small polypeptides in combinatorial patterns.
I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy roads, and these two snowmobilers were racing up a hill and they weren’t looking, so they caught me as I was going up the other side of the hill, and they smashed into me.
So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better – it is how we work in our trade – is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.
When you lose a child in an accident as I did, it’s final – you’re not caught in this longing for him, to search for him, knowing he’s out there some place.
Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.
I’m not a champion by accident.
Only three per cent of people are born with a disability; the rest acquire it through accident or illness, but people come out of it. Thanks to medical advances, bodies heal.
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village – in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there.
It was a long, difficult summer of 2004. That was a leap year, so several things happened – the Olympics and presidential election. And right in the middle of the election campaign – and I don’t think this was an accident – the 9/11 Commission delivers its report.
Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.
I finally returned to Lausitzring in 2003. The idea was to drive the 13 laps that I had been unable to complete because of the crash. I drove out and it was as if I was in the car the day before the accident.
Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.
The way I move, the way I think, the way I handle myself – it might be by accident, but it’s who I am, and I’ve just learned to own that.
My experience I consider an accident in the Hollywood system. I don’t believe it should be a reference for a black film maker, or an example for any young film maker, because it’s purely luck.
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
It’s no accident that I’m not married and don’t have kids yet. Because, despite what I’ve achieved in my career, I’m always wondering when somebody’s gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, ‘OK, the gig is up.’
I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night’s ‘Main Event.’ That’s how I started watching SNL. On accident.
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.
Can you design a Rorschach test that’s going to make everyone feel something every time – and that looks like a Rorschach test? It’s easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don’t know what’s happening to them?
I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.
I do a lot of thrifting, but I don’t go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can’t talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.
My fiancee’s brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It’s an issue I wish had more coverage.
What men call accident is God’s own part.
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
I am First Lady by accident. I was not elected by the people but here I am.
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It’s way more fun.
Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don’t usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
My faith is a very important part of my life. I do not feel that I have become president of this country by accident, but that I have been chosen because nobody can accuse me of favouring the Albanian Muslims or the Orthodox.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
The probability that we will get into a car accident is a million times higher than the probability we will suffer as a result of terrorist act.
I started playing guitar kind of by accident.
As a nation, we spent eight billion hours sitting in our cars, waiting for lights to change, for the driver ahead to sneak into that parking spot, for an accident to be cleared.
I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
I don’t think it’s by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
We always said our career was built on our friendship and that our friendship was the secret of our success. The career just happened by accident.
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving?
If men have a smell it’s usually an accident.
I had – after I sang the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind of, like, really got even more full blown and, you know, I got stage fright and, you know, I couldn’t do stand-up anymore and let alone sing and all the other things.
I find myself, by happy accident, writing ‘Young Adult’ fiction. However, I dislike such categories.
I’d rather my son died in an accident than showed up with some bloke with a moustache.
In 1978, I had a near-fatal car accident in the Bahamas. There was a point when I could have lost my right arm – but it was good because it forced me to slow down and take a break.
You don’t stay married for 35 years by accident. I think that that’s willful and intentional and something that both people really want.
I had a motorcycle accident, and I had my garage burn down with most of my vehicles. And I’ve had really bad relationships that I’ve been in and out of. They’ve left their mark.
The producers of ‘Chernobyl’ should tell the truth: the accident demonstrates the relative safety, not danger, of nuclear power.
I’m not in public life except by accident.
I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
When I wake up in the morning, I need the writing to go to. I begin there. And that’s not an accident, I mean, that habit of getting up in the morning and going to my writing first thing.
One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
It’s like watching a car accident, that reality TV.
Labour’s disastrous legacy and the Conservative success did not happen by accident: it was about the choices each party made, choices that impact on everyone.
Mariah Carey, Rihanna, the female rapper Nicki Minaj, my kids – and what do they all have in common? They’re all lighter skinned. Do you think that’s an accident?
I first came across the Anders Army story by accident. When I first went to live in Oxford in the 1960s, I discovered that some of my close neighbours had been on the Anders trail.
You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once.
